Thankyou for reading my story this far. The 'prologue phase' won't really be complete until the end of chapter 3 so please bear with it until then.

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Chapter 2: Mewtwo Awakens

He awoke. Something had tripped one of the psychic defences he had implanted in his charge. From this distance he couldn't tell who it was or why but he knew that it had been a broad spectrum scan and that the intruder had withdrawn the moment they had made contact. From this he could conclude that it had probably been an accident and that the perpetrator was probably more worried about him then he was about them. Of course that wasn't saying much considering who he was, there wasn't that much in the world he had to be worried about.

In the dark secluded depths of Cerulean Cave, Mewtwo stretched, gleaning what he could from Ash in his current position of Melemele Island. The boy was all right at this point in time but that could change if the culprit decided to inform him or cause any other problems. Normally he would be much closer to his charge, staying just over ten kilometres from him to be just outside the standard psychic sensory range and close enough to watch and see the world with the boy. Alola however was guarded by the Tapus and they had instantly decided they didn't like him, probably had something to do with the fact that they were technically considered guardian deities instead of legendary pokémon like himself.

With the barest trace of his psychic powers, he shot forward toward the entrance. Teleporting would have been faster but teleporting to a location he wasn't already familiar with was unwise. Besides, the Tapus terrain altering abilities messed with long range teleportation anyway. He would have to fly there which would take quite a few hours.

Shooting out into the open air above Cerulean City, he decided he'd spend the time reminiscing about how he had ended up in this position. It had been a while and a little self reflection wouldn't hurt. Everything had started after he had parted ways with Ash for the second time. He had left with the intent to travel the world and discover his purpose in life. Why had he been born and what his role in the world was. He had not expected to find it several weeks later in an untraveled remote area presented to him by Arceus himself.

That day he learnt about the chosen one and the role he would play in resolving the many, many world endangering problems that would happen in the years to come. So long as Arceus managed to stagger these events, the chosen one, who he ironically discovered to be Ash Ketchum, would come along and save everyone or just about everyone involved. He, with his intelligence and his exorbitant psychic abilities, was meant to be Ash's chaperone. While there were several other parties involved in keeping an eye on the chosen one, it would be his job to make sure Ash kept doing what he did best: traveling and saving the world. More specifically he was in charge of ensuring that no girl got to close and prevent or make Ash forget anything that could traumatise him for life.

The reason for this was simple. People that fall in love don't tend to travel. They settle down, buy a home and usually have children. They did not pursue criminal organisation or go head to head with rabid, civilisation destroying monsters. So, as he had no problems with Ash, he began his role with a great deal of pride and a general sense that, even though it was his job to ensure that Ash never found love, he could at least ensure that Ash lived a happy and fulfilled life in regards to everything else.

He had decided to take a conservative behind the scenes approach to things. After all, Ash's oblivious nature was a blessing and he had assumed he would not have too much in his role beyond applying several layers of complex hidden defences to ensure Ash's safety and help him monitor the boy. What he did not expect was the sheer number of girls over the years that were drawn to the boy's easy looks and kind personality. Now while Mewtwo was basically allowed to do anything he wanted so long as the end result was achieved, he still took a very conservative approach. So long as the girl kept her mouth shut, he would leave them alone . . . most of the time.

Ash had travelled a lot, met a lot of people and done a whole lot of things. But due to Mewtwo's oversight he didn't always recall things the way they had happened. Take his first target, Leaf, for example. The girl had grown up with Ash and Gary and had competed in the Kanto and Johto league with them. The Johto league hadn't happened yet at that point in time but given the choice of an egotistical brat and a brave kind boy, Leaf had obviously fallen in love with the brave kind boy. Unfortunately, due to the length of time they had known each other and the proximity of their home, Mewtwo had had to make Leaf forget about Ash and Gary completely (and vice versa for consistencies sake) and then 'suggested' to her parents that they move to Viridian city.

The only other girl that Ash was close to at the time was Misty, who was surprisingly the only girl that he had never had to tamper with. This was a relief to him as she was the only one that he had personally interacted with but the reasons for this were very simple. She was, at least after Johto, anchored to a gym and didn't really know how to express her feelings through flirting. So she had decided, on her own, that she would confess to Ash once she had managed to become a water master by joining the Elite Four.

Then the Johto league came and Ash met Macy who promptly developed a typical small girl crush on him. Mewtwo had done absolutely nothing about the encounter because Ash just wasn't interested, not to mention largely oblivious. After they parted ways however, he had promptly made her forget about her feelings for Ash, not because she was a threat, but because he personally found her annoying.

A small trip to Alto Mare turned out to be a mild nuisance as the local Latias had developed a crush on the boy and kissed Ash before he left. To make matters worse the psychic dragon had become aware of his role in particular and encapsulated all of Ash's memories relating to Alto Mare so that he couldn't erase the event without causing damage. Having Ash remember the kiss could have potentially increased the likelihood of future relationships. The action was nothing more then pointless stubbornness since the pokémon would never be able to have a relationship with a human. Still, it had been a learning experience since he realised he would have to keep an eye on irrational pokémon as well.

Ash then went to Hoenn and Mewtwo followed. He had decided that allowing Ash to keep a female traveling companion would reduce his workload since a boy already traveling with a girl was less enticing then a guy traveling alone. One of the others in charge of watching Ash arranged for Brock to tag along so that Ash and his new companion May didn't starve. The Hoenn region, while interesting to see, had been about as eventful as he'd been expecting.

Then his future sight had given him only a few moments warning before one of May's elite rivals, a girl named Lisia, confessed to Ash on national television. Due to the short timeframe he had to work with, he was forced to wipe her memories of him completely, changing her sentence from 'I love you Ash Ketchum' to 'I love my Altaria'. Afterwards he followed up by erasing her memories of Ash's group and vice versa so that there weren't any inconsistencies that could come up in conversation.

Towards the very end of his journey through Hoenn, Ash met a draconid girl named Zinnia who had rapidly developed strong feelings for him. While she was not the type to confess, she was involved in multiple vigilante operations against terrorist groups and the like. Her dangerous lifestyle had the risk of pulling Ash in all to easily for the sake of saving pokémon so their memories of each other had to go (same applied to his companions).

Returning to Kanto, Ash learned about the battle frontier and began to make steady headway. Anabel hadn't been a problem at first but when Ash had come back from Sinnoh she had decided to visit his hometown and confess. He had intercepted her midway and tried to erase her feelings. Obviously her psychic types had objected, so he had wiped her entire memory so they couldn't do a patch repair job, dropped her and her pokémon through a conveniently close dimensional rift and that was the end of that.

After the Kanto grand festival he decided that it was no longer safe for May to continue traveling with Ash so he purged her feeling for Ash and changed her decision from following Ash to Sinnoh and competing in that grand festival to following that green haired boy to Johto instead. Once Ash made landfall in Sinnoh, Pikachu promptly collected a new traveling companion for him named Dawn. He got rid of Angie by placing a placing a minor subconscious command to inherit her family day care like she originally planned instead of asking to travel with Ash.

During the Wallace cup he kept a close eye on May and ensured she promptly went back to Johto after it was over before her feelings could be rekindled. Next came Lyra, who was a simple matter of redirecting her feelings towards her traveling companion. The boy was rather bland so she would probably brake up with him in a month or two but once she left Sinnoh, she was no longer his problem. Following the rap up of events in the Sinnoh league conference, in which one of Arceus' own agents flattened Ash to prevent him from winning the cup, he had debated whether to allow Dawn another year with Ash. On the one hand he had allowed May two years but the bluenette was developing feeling much more quickly considering the three year age gap. (A/N: If Ash takes four years to reach Sinnoh, Dawn should technically be ten but a four year age gap is to much for me so I've bopped her age up by one year)

Ultimately some fashion designer had saved Dawn from her unknown fate by keeping her in Sinnoh while Ash went home for a quick rest. Unova had been an unmitigated disaster. Mewtwo had been forced not to wipe, but alter Ash's recollection of important events on three separate occasions. He blamed Ghetsis mostly but Zekrom, Reshiram and the Swords of Justice were also partially responsible. The region had started out as normal. Ash got two new companions and made lots of friends. Then the first incident happened: Reshiram, Zekrom and their respective trainers decided to declare war on each other over a giant stone sword that controlled dragon force.

While N and Ash did not meet directly, the boy did get quite involved with the other trainer, a girl named Hilda, as she tried to stop her pokémon from fighting. Her strong feelings, born from surviving a literal war zone together, had to be removed and Ash and his companions needed to forget the horrors they'd seen. Neither dragon had wanted to take the blame and had interfered with his altering of events, resulting in two different contradictory recollections of the same imaginary event. Fortunately none of the humans seemed to notice, as humans tend to only realise their memory has been tampered when someone asks them about the event in question. Obviously he had long since taken measures to prevent any travellers involved in legendary events from stupidly bringing them up in conversation afterwards so that wasn't going to happen.

The problem came from Hilda who didn't take well to the fact that Ash had forgotten all about her. He forgot N too but she wasn't bothered by that at the time. Zekrom, as her pokémon and the champion of ideals, sided with the principle of love and his current master. Rather than just her feelings, he had been forced to wipe both their memories of the event all together. Few creatures understand just how difficult to make a conceptual incarnation forget something important.

Down the track Ash visited Pokéstar Studios were he met Yancy. Mewtwo had done nothing about her impromptu crush because despite blushing at their goodbye she hadn't said anything. Then Dawn showed up again so he promptly purged her feelings and quietly waited for the metaphorical storm he could sense on the horizon. In hindsight he should have made more preparations. Ghetsis proved to be the worst team leader to date in his attempt to capture Kyurem and use it to suck out Reshiram's power. Opposing him was Ash, his companions, N and a new girl named Rosa and the Swords of Justice.

However none of the previous team leaders had dared arm their grunts with handguns and other automated weaponry. It seemed that Ghetsis had been stopped by a trainer during his last regional takeover scheme and decided to stop playing fair. Ash, being Ash, recklessly took a bullet for the girl, thereby cementing her feelings for him. After the incident, in which Ghetsis escaped, he had to show up in person for emergency damage control. His first response, after healing the injured, was to try and make Ash forget about the event. Even if he was unexpectedly resistant to the ordeal, any person who heard about it would inform the authorities who would in turn tell his mother who would justifiably pull the plug on his adventure.

Despite these glaring facts, the Swords of Justice had refused to allow him to erase the 'glorious bonds between true warriors'. Outnumbered six legendary pokémon to one, he had been forced to parley. Wiping the girls memories of the incident took her out of the equation and then they had to come up with an 'acceptable' cover up story, which was made easier when Kyurem volunteered to play villain. Then Reshiram surprised everyone by not only asking him to make N forget about the encounter but also to make N forget that he owned it. The pokémon's reasoning was to allow it to lure Ghetsis away from N and give him a chance to live a more normal life. He agreed and projected the new version of events, consisting of an encounter with the Swords of Justice and Kyurem, over the top of Ash and his companions' memories of the event. To dot the I's and cross the T's he went back and erased Yancy's memories of Ash and vice versa because she was close friends with Rosa.

Almost immediately after that was a nostalgic Team Rocket showdown. It was nice not being the focus of their efforts for once. But after their inevitable defeat he had to explain to a very stubborn Meloetta why it couldn't have a relationship with a human and why brainwashing the boy to overlook that 'small' detail was not an acceptable response. These irrational psychic types were giving him a bad reputation. Surely he wasn't the only one who could see these obvious rules of the world.

The third and final incident after the league had culminated in finally arresting Ghetsis and another encounter with N. He altered the severity of the event but had allowed Ash and N to remember everyone involved because Ghetsis was finally behind bars. When Ash left Unova, he purged Bianca's feelings out of pity after she had cried herself to sleep. Then he purged Iris's feelings and got rid of her as soon as they arrived back in Kanto because she had been useless in keeping girls away from Ash.

Kalos was a breath of fresh air. He got a mega stone; Serena was the perfect girl deterrent and the only other girl, Miette, was happy to wait until Serena had first try. Ash did his hero thing; Alain entered the league of his own accord, ensuring that no one had to do anything to stop Ash from winning. When Miette got impatient he casually purged her feeling with no strings attached and then all he had to do was carefully watch Serena and Ash part ways and he would be done. Sadly Hoopa chose that moment to try and 'play' with him and distracted him for the necessary minute needed for the girl to kiss Ash. Feeling vindictive at being foiled at the last moment, he made Ash and everyone around him forget about the kiss while altering Serena's memory so that she believed Ash rejected her.

As Mewtwo saw Alola up ahead, he wondered in a detached fashion whether the girl had gotten over her immediate mental breakdown. Unlike Bianca, Serena's feelings had been embedded for too long to be negated by anything less then a complete mind wipe. So not wanting to ruin the girl's life, he had been a little creative with his solution. She got to keep 99.99% of her memories and would stay away from Ash for the rest of her life.

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Arriving at Melemele Island well after dark and locating Ash, Mewtwo teleported into the chosen ones room as he slept and probed into his mind to assess the situation. Tapu Koko was already aware of his presence but shouldn't do anything as long as he kept his trip brief. Apparently Prof. Kukui had taken him to see the doctor for unknown reasons and Mewtwo's adjustments had been detected. Fortunately they hadn't been able to do anything about it in the time window they had and now they would never know.

Wiping the doctor's appointment and the discovery from Ash's memory, he teleported over to the professor to extract more information out of him. The man was asleep at his desk with a half drunk coffee and his computer displaying a report of what happened. He checked the man's memory, wiped it, checked the phone records, wiped those too and then deleted the report about the day's events. Teleporting to the hospital, medical clinic and the doctor's residence, he systematically erased all records of Ash's condition.

Then he teleported to the pokémon centre room were the established cause of his day's problems was located. To his mild surprise, even though it was now after midnight in Alola, the boy was awake. As he already knew, the trainer was a foreign body that came another universe. While he was no expert he'd say the deviation in their basic rule sets was about one millionth, well below the 0.1% that would have caused the boy to die the moment he came through the ultra wormhole.

Sitting one his bed imitating his alakazam's meditative position beside him and a drifblim floating above floating above, J stared directly at Mewtwo with not fear but annoyance. Clearly the boy had been waiting for him and the malevolent presence of a fifth unseen occupant gave him pause. A split second check was enough to tell that the boys mind was fortified beyond normal human means. Not remotely a threat or obstacle but enough to allow his pokémon to interfere.

"I wasn't expecting the culprit to be a Mewtwo. I feel like I've wasted my time now," J greeted cynically, "So, mind telling me what beedrill nest I accidentally stuck my nose into this time?"

Arceus had briefed Mewtwo on what to do if he ran into a jumper. Based on his attitude it would probably be easy to negotiate and get him to leave by the next morning.

"I am indeed Mewtwo," projected the legendary telepathically, "As to your question, I am the chaperone of the Chosen One Ash. You apparently noticed and informed his guardian about the defences I put in place to protect him. While I appreciate your concern, it has required me to clean up the incident."

"Fuuudge, I can't believe I just stepped on the toe's of the ruling big shots. Let me guess, you want me to pretend this never happened," replied J in tired frustration.

"How very astute of you. Of course it would be even more preferable if you just left," projected Mewtwo in a pleased tone.

"Sorry, can't do that just yet. Portals between internal dimensional layers are one thing but portals between universes put a lot more strain on the area in question. I wouldn't want to leave and accidently cause a space-time tear to destroy the whole island. The area should settle down within about a week so I'll be out of your hair then. In the mean time I'll keep my mouth shut as long as you leave me alone. Normally I keep a very low profile but as you are probably aware they spotted me right as I came out so my cover was blown," yawned J.

"Completely understandable," mused Mewtwo, "Of course even though I won't be physically here, know that I will be keeping a very close eye on you until you leave."

The trainer nodded and started making preparations to go to bed so without anything more to add, Mewtwo left. Double checking on the status of Ash's three female classmates he then left Alolan airspace and teleported straight to Pallet Town. It was very late now so he was tired from a days flying and people editing. So, already knowing Delia quite well for work purposes, he checked her phone records, found only the one call to Alola and wiped it. She didn't own a diary or a computer outside of the one strictly for restaurant transactions and was currently asleep so he lazily isolated the memories since Kukui's phone call and wiped them without checking their contents.

After that the Legendary Psychic Pokémon left for Cerulean Cave. Had he paid more attention, had he bothered to check her memories before wiping them, he would have noticed that, while she did not own a diary, she did own a personal planner. So the next morning, when Mewtwo was already monitoring J for early morning activity, she got up and checked her personal planner for the day's events. What she found to her complete shock was her own handwriting detailing a very clear message to herself about Ash. She couldn't reach the phone fast enough.